Hedquist was convicted in 1995 of murdering 19-year-old Nikki Thrasher. He later said he feared Thrasher would report him to ...

Terri Lee Brown, who the Oregon Supreme Court found was wrongly returned to prison after an earlier release, has sued Gov. Tina Kotek, Washington County District Attorney Kevin Barton, clemency ...

Oregon’s governor is organizing a new committee of advisers to weigh in on issues rising from the rapid growth of data ...

Alec Karakatsanis explained how the news media demonizes the poor while protecting the powerful ...

The seven members of Gov. Tina Kotek’s new Data Center Advisory Committee will recommend regulations meant to protect energy ...

Data centers are proliferating across Oregon, consuming a growing share of the state’s energy, water and industrial land. Gov. Tina Kotek said Tuesday she’s convening a workgroup to take a step back ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A controversy is brewing in Salem as public safety professionals say they oppose the City Council’s ...

So, who is Hedquist? Why, he is none other than a convicted murderer. In 1994, Hedquist stole things from his aunt’s home. When Nikki Thrasher, a teenage girl, asked him about some of the items, ...

A special meeting was held by the Salem City Council on Wednesday following growing calls for a convicted murderer to be ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A controversy is brewing in Salem as public safety professionals say they oppose the City Council’s appointment of a convicted murderer to a public safety position. Kyle ...

A controversial vote to keep a convicted Oregon killer on a city police oversight board is now under pressure to unravel after police and fire unions revealed that two Salem city councilors are ...

A host of heavy hitters in Oregon politics, including three former governors, say the state’s lawyers did an abominable job ...